An architectural pioneer attempts to create a containerized home that strikes a delicate balance between art and architecture.

Push Button House investigates the creation of Adam Kalkin's follow-up to his 2007 Venice Biennale sensation, a shipping container that blossoms into a sleek modern pre-fabricated home. First-person observation and Kalkin's own words shed light on an artist/architect who defies anything traditional.

Part performance piece and part sculpture, the Push Button is an engineering and artistic feat that captured the attention of both the artistic community and public as a bold, yet playful vision on the intersection of art and technology.

This award winning short film has been featured at over a dozen international festivals including AFI Dallas, Newport Beach Film Festival, Seattle International Film Festival, and featured preview footage at the Museum of Modern Art.

Push Button House is an observation on the artist process of creation and collaboration. It was an amazing opportunity to be able to work with illy who commissioned the Push Button
House sculpture at the Venice Biennale in 2007. As filmmakers we have an incredible respect for their commitment to the arts and of course really good coffee, the fuel of many artists.

Push Button House is a small window into Adam's amazing body of work; our hope was to be able to convey a snippet of the creative energy that he puts into every piece. Film is an
incredibly collaborative art-form not unlike architecture and it was fascinating to watch the creation of the Push Button House and its similarities to film.

It's a piece of art that literally dozens of craftsmen, welders, technicians, and engineers all poured their creative energies
into yet is held together by Adam's unified directorial vision.

To be able to spend a few months with Adam as he developed the Push Button House was an inspiration and his unique approach to every project makes it impossible to categorize his
work. He literally reinvents himself and his approach with every project. It's incredibly exciting to look at a classic structure such as the home, something so worked over, and to do what Adam does and literally recreate it and rethink the model of what we consider modern architecture.